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UPDATE: Submissions to the contest are now closed. Watch for an announcement on the results.
The Prompt
Use an object to connect the lives of two or more otherwise unrelated characters.
The Rules
Word Limits
Submitting Your Entry
To submit your entry, first be certain that your artist's comment includes a link to this journal as well as the appropriate word, line, or page count. Then submit your work to the Summer Contest folder in Daily-Lit-Deviations gallery. Your work will be checked for grammar and spelling before it is admitted to the group. Pieces that do not adhere to the rules will be declined.
Remember, all entries are due by August 1st at 11:59pm Pacific Time. The gallery folder will be closed after that time.
Judging
Entries will be judged based on creativity, excellent use of language, strong characterization, and overall impact.
Your judges are:
Prizes
We look forward to your entries! If you have questions or comments, please leave them below.
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Comments: 186
Wow, there STILL hasn't even been a notice telling us this thing is off. Definitely not participating in this group's contests anymore...
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I thought I would double check on this contest. Is there going to be a winner announced?
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Hey! So I submitted my story yesterday well before the time limit was up, and I noticed it hasn't been accepted into the folder yet. I was wondering if I've been disqualified for some reason or another or if my story is just waiting to be approved. Thanks in advance!
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it appears as though your submission was accepted.
shane
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Yeah, I noticed that after looking at it the next day! Thanks, though! I hope my story is well-liked
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Also can one of the character be an inanimate object?
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I suppose it could!
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Well thank you i have submitted it. hope it wins
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In my poem it does connect two otherwise unrelated character but character do not speak to one another and one dies. Is that o.k. ?
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Yep that's fine, as long as there is a connection of some sort.
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I'm SO excited to hear these results but I won't be home for them. I'm going on a vacation until August 6th. I'm SO going to try to sneak peaks on my phone to see, but I won't have that great of service - I'll be camping. Can't wait til I get home!
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Results probably wont be announced until the second week of August since I am also going on vacation until August 8th.
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As you laugh, a little while, take a look, you will smile, from these words that I have said, you'll think I lost my flippin' head!
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I have an idea already. However, in my idea, one character has already noticed/was watching the other - the object just helped the two characters really connect. Is that still counted as otherwise unrelated characters? Thank you!
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I'd say that if they hadn't known each other before, that counts.
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all right! great. thanks. (:
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:*( WHY!!!! my story is 5272 words long...
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Brevity is an important skill!
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i know i have short stories, but this one is my best...i might hack off some words
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Yeah- I was going to particapte too- but 2,500 words is to restricting for my style of thinking and writing. >.> I could make it happen, but than my whole heart wouldn't be in it- and that doesn't make for good literature. v.v
I wish the limit could be 5,000 words (that's generally the average)- you'd only have to snip a bit to make it happen than.
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yeah i know right i could cut some off.but 2000 words arent that much
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When you say 'connect the lives of two' characters is it okay if the connection only goes one way, where one character is connected to another without the other even being aware? A quick example: A woman writes a letter and a man finds it a century later and falls in love with her through the letter. Does that count?
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You can touch a person, so yes.
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Though I feel like I'm starting a little late, I've been wanting to do this contest for a while now. This should be great.
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Here's my entry: [link] I hope you enjoy it!
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Got around to writing an entry that has been laying on my hard-drive for a few days now just fermenting. Need to do some touching up on it before submitting..maybe this weekend.
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eeep, submitted my entry awhile back, still feeling all excited every time i see stuff about this :0
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"Your work will be checked for grammar and spelling before it is admitted to the group."
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oooh I got to this late, thanks for sending out the poll. I'll be sure to give it a go, I haven't done a literature contest in ages
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I don't enter a lot of contests, but I guess I could give it a try.
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I wrote one for the contest, called sir Rubix, if you like humorous poetry, you'll love this one.
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Thank you for your comment, I take the work i did for the summer contest was reviewed, so in that, would I just like to understand what it was that it meant, though, when wrote as my work either defines a genre, or the genre defines my work. The whole message was within my poem is that the rubik's cube bears the weight of our determination turned frustration. The infinite puzzles that conflict us in our daily lives can be solved in more than one way, may not be the right way, but it still makes us feel we have succeeded. Again, thank you for commenting, have a nice day.
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